Q - Smilin Steve (IV)

[Michael Bailey]

2010/11/13 János Székely <miksaapja at gmail.com>:
> In IV, p 10, there's this clause, "So I went in, and Smilin Steve was
> at the counter". Is this a guy actually called Steve, who is smiling,
> or is this a slangish idiom, or both?
>
> Thx,
> János
>


probably a guy named Steve who often smiles and friends call him that,
or possibly a guy named Steve with a prominent scowl whom Doc and
perhaps others of a similar humor call Smilin' Steve...
there was a comic strip called "Smilin' Jack" - WWII aviator

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